Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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Agreed and much easier to do once the kids are grown and out of the house. So, if you can't get that quiet time at least once a week now, it get's easier.
Did this for a month.
Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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don't enter/net? HODL p2p
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Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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Check out marathon watches. They’re made for special forces and can be gripped while wearing thick gloves in water. Very cool watches.
And carry a revolver instead of a striker fired pistol.
arm up/check the 6
Good reminder. Thanks.
Smart watches are gay
Yes, the rest of us who do this need some cover. 🤣
Cop #1: OMG, that person doesn't have any RF signature!
Cop #2: oh, that's probably just Dr Hax, if we get any calls about him, his address is on the dash
Reference: 
xkcd
License Plate
I know, it's not all abiut tracking, but also about the distractions, disruptions, an so on. Still, I couldn't resist. 😈
Read a physical book. Cook a meal and use a physical recipe book. Light a few candles in the evening instead of turning your lights in. Go spend time with others in person.
Stop using digital maps—buy a physical map, learn the names of roads, and memorize landmarks.
it's literally a creepy lurker
This one has seen some shit. Trit's about gone, but it works fine.
funny, I do this when I go to church.
I like that seiko
Beautiful watch. I need to get one for my collection one of these days
my parents used a party line in Southern Cal Edison employee camps up & down San Joaquin river, hydroelectric generation. Most were gated communities & well cared for with company incentives.
remote
Made in 2006 and I got it in 2007, so it's been glowing for a minute.
Love this
yep.
but... even better, use do not disturb and mute, reduce number of apps and number of notifications, keep phone in pocket, learn not to whip out the phone unless actually necessary.
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I couldn't agree more
Cash as in the fiat kind?
What is “cash” and why is Wad carrying it?😅
Yeah. What other kind is there?
Can I smoke weed first?
How about an opendime or a brain wallet?
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People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").
Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.
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what do I need a watch for?
That's what the revolver is for.
Which model is this? Beautiful watch!
Or what does it matter if the watch is mechanical or digital for that matter?
I guess he got ahead of himself there. As long as the watch is not programmable with alarms or internet connected even, I don't see why the difference between mechanical or digital would matter.
I remember 30 years ago we would go camping with kids and not using watches was a thing. For the kids out there: mobile phones were not invented yet.
leave your 12 words at home
Seiko SRPE93 Prospex SEA - The Turtle. 😄
Seiko SRPE93 Prospex SEA
I just prefer a mechanical watch. More analog soul.
To understand how much time you have before dark if you happen to be in the forest & the sun is shaded out.
Or if you're going to be meeting someone at a certain time & don't feel like asking others around you.
All green except for an orange at the 12. The bezel zero and second hand are normal luminescent paint, but that little triangle fell out long ago.
That's a GSAR. I believe they made some sterile versions that year, also.
Thank you. 🙏
No prob. Here's all the old tritium stuff I have. The GSAR, 2005 Navigator's, a '90s Luminox, and a Traser Code Blue.
And just for comparison, here's a Seiko Monster that's only been in dim room lighting. These are shot 30s at f/5.6 and ISO 400.
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And just for comparison, here's a Seiko Monster that's only been in dim room lighting. These are shot 30s at f/5.6 and ISO 400.
@weebitshifty
Thanks, I always wanted the Code Blue. The blue tritium just looks so cool. I actually bought that one with Bitcoin back at the good ol' 20k ATH.
No. Don't keep seed words at your house.
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You know what time it is 👻🤙
marin instruments 
Good looking piece
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The little things in life 💜
Beautiful collection. 💙
beautiful watch. which brand?
Even quartz watches tell time mechanically. Early quartz watches you could hear. Then they bumped the frequency high enough that only bats can hear it.